Her broader, continuing research looks at 18th-century art, as well as British and German philosophy. John works on English Renaissance drama and English Renaissance and Early-Modern poetry in general ...

In short, there is no credible evidence that 18th-century gambling dens employed dice swallowers to avoid police detection.

They attacked travellers in carriages or on horseback. Highwaymen increased in number in the early 18th century. They targeted stagecoaches, carriages, farmers returning from market and the mail ...

Early pictorial representations of their work as healers were restricted to alchemical texts and manuals. Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image ...

They attacked travellers in carriages or on horseback. Highwaymen increased in number in the early 18th century. They targeted stagecoaches, carriages, farmers returning from market and the mail ...